Drive-by shooting 'too close for comfort' for Stroudsburg neighborhood

Thursday

Oct 6, 2011 at 12:01 AM

Nancy Danowski spent part of Wednesday sitting on the front porch of her multifamily home on Barry Street in Stroudsburg, around the corner from the Sunoco gas station and a few yards from where a man had been shot in the head Tuesday afternoon.

ANDREW SCOTT

Nancy Danowski spent part of Wednesday sitting on the front porch of her multifamily home on Barry Street in Stroudsburg, around the corner from the Sunoco gas station and a few yards from where a man had been shot in the head Tuesday afternoon.

"I don't feel safe at all now," said Danowski, who has lived in the usually quiet neighborhood for a year and four months.

At about 4:27 p.m. Tuesday, Terrance Tyson, 34, of Stroudsburg, was shot in the head as he stood by the Barry Street entrance to the gas station parking lot, the victim of a drive-by shooting. The car from which the shots were fired, described as a gold or tan sedan, fled across the Park Avenue intersection onto Interstate 80 East toward New Jersey.

The bleeding Tyson managed to make his way over to his girlfriend's car at the gas pump and got into the passenger seat, witnesses said. She then drove him to Pocono Medical Center, from where he was flown to Lehigh Valley Hospital.

As of Wednesday night, Tyson's condition had not been released, and Stroud Area Regional Police were still looking for the car and its occupants involved in the shooting.

Spots of Tyson's blood were still visible on the sidewalk where he had been shot.

Police released no new information Wednesday. Sunoco employees declined to comment.

"It happened right next door," Danowski said, gazing toward the crime scene and shaking her head. "That's too close for comfort."

At the other end of the block, neighbor Mike Schultz, a Stroudsburg resident for the past 24 years, was working on his motorcycle.

"When I was a kid, people could leave their doors unlocked," Schultz said. "Not anymore. It is what it is."

Unlike Danowski, Schultz doesn't feel less safe and said police maintain a reasonable level of visibility in the neighborhood.